The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-18

Blakely-A Griffin Youngster with a
Prediction for Letting Trains Run
Over Him-Lynchers Longing to Get
Hold of a Negro Scoundrel Near
Adairsville.
GEORGIA.
At Bailey, Saturday, Frank Wilcox's
trial for murder, in Appliog Superior
Court, which created great excitement and
interest, resulted in his acquittal, by the
jury.
Macon Oct. - and %, unless bad health
prevents, will be presented with handsome
stove by Northern firm making an ex-
hibition there ~ the State fair.
Thursday night at a church festival in the
upper portion of Monroe county, VIII JeS-
ter shot and instantly killed Ben Lovett.
Both colored. Lovett was a VIGOROUSLY
bad negro, and had served out at least two
terms in the Changing.
Mr.. Huff trapper of Oconee county,
has Just returned from a trapping expedit-
ion up on the Oconee river He had three
fur beavers and an otter. He says there
are not many on the river, and that he
caught all in the lot but one. He has a
large number of traps.
John Mimms, a burly negro, offered
some familiarity to a young lady of pure
character and excellent family, near Adairs-
vile few days since When the scoundrel
was located a party waited on him with a
rope, but he slipped the cords with which he
was tied and made his escape. Several
shots were fired at him, but without any
apparent effect.
At Macon, Friday, Bennett Jones, of
Twiggs county, lost his pocketbook contain
ing $50 or more. 1t developed Saturday
that DR.. McHatton's driver found it near
Gross Keys, and turned it over to the doc
tor. The doctor handed it to George G..
Price, who advertised that pocketboolI
had been found. The driver was rewarded
for his honest act
At Gordon Saturday negro named An
drew Brantley, had his arm horribly mang
led by getting it caught in a GIN. The
flesh was torn from the arm, leaving arteries
and muscles exposed Andrew is very
much thought of in Gordon, and he was at
once placed under the care of DR. w w
Lee, who put the flesh back in shape after
much careful work, and now the arm gives
evidence of growing properly and becoming
a good arm once more. 1t is considered
skillful hit of surgery.
Last Friday, B. L. Lewis, of Lumpxin,
was driving along the road just beyond the
Hannahatchee creek, when his buggy
wheels ran over a monster rattlesnake. The
dreadful rattling-roar of warning was
coil ready for an attack. Mr. Lewis made
the first attack, and gave him a salute of
five rounds from pistol Failing in these
to silence his battery, he attacked his snake
ship with fence rail, and beabored him
until life was extinct The deadly monster
was about five feet in length, and carried
thirteen rattles.
When one of the incoming trains arrived
at Augusta Saturday afternoon passen-
xRaA ha, aN,al DO h.
who was Justify soliciting patronage for
presumably first-class hotel. After looking
all over the town for the hotel represented
by the darkey, the unfortunate visitor was
forced to a realization of the fact that he
was the victim of an original scheme hit
upon bya sharp thief, whose purposes were
to secure the luggage entrusted to his care
The thief and baggage are still at large.
The loss falls heavily on the passenger, as
the valise contained a handsome new suit of
clothing, besides several other articles of
value.
A certain section of Franklin county is in
arms over marriage which took place last
Saturday. Farmer Buckalew had daugh-
ter, Minnie, for whom he had picked out a
husband. The young woman preferred a
young man named John Adams, and when
forbidden by her father to receive his at
tentions she met her lover clandestnely,
This all went very well until the early part
of last week, when Buckalew, carrying his
rifle. came suddenly upon the couple at
their TRUSTING place. He blazed away at
once at young Adams, who escaped through
the woods under fire. Adams friend took
up his cause, alleging that he was a good
enough man for Buckalew's daughter, and
before daylight on Friday morning party
stormed the Buckalew mansion and cap
tured the girl. She found at a convenient
place her lover waiting for her. The whole
party, armed to the teeth, made their way
to GAINESVILLE to procure a license for the
marriage As the girl was under age, only
IA, the license was refused The party then
drove across to Carrollton, the bride and
groom in a wagon, while the other members
were on horseback with rifles ready for &C
ton. In Carrollton the necessary papers
were secured and the marriage took place
Since then the whole neighborhood has di-
vided into factions, and several bloody
fights are likely to take place.
Among other beauties and phenomena.
Griffin possesses probably the only young
child in Georgia who would deliberately lie
down on the railroad track for the novel
pleasure of seeing a train of cars pass over
his body. Possibly there may be something
in the nerve of the name given him by his
parents that inspired Gilman Drake Tut
wiler, the 5-year-old urchin, who now has
to be kept in the house to prevent repeti-
ton of such action. Almost everybody has
seen this child, with a gravity above his
age, running around the streets, httle, fat
bit of humanity, seeking knowledge and as
sociates among men rather than among the
infants, of which he is really one One day
not long ago he got on the cowcatcher of a
Georgia Midland locomotive to take ride,
but fell off and upon the track, where he lay
while the engine and train passed over him,
rising up at the rear end of the train unin-
jured and chuckling at the adventure. So
amusing was it, that few days afterward
be went down to the train and deliberately
lay down in front of the locomotive, unseen
by the engineer, for the purpose of repeat
ing the episode, and again succeeded in es-
Gaping without injury. But his singular
predictions were discovered, and he has
since been forbidden the track by the ma
ternal authority, and has had his freedom
curtailed in manner that must prove very
irksome to his adventurous disposition.
Blakely correspondence of the Macon Tele-
graph: Blakely is one of the oldest towns
of Southwest Georgia, and was settled by
the Collier family way back in ~ Here
lives John M. Wade, one of the "oldest in
habitants," who never goes from home and
has not even been to Albany since 81, when
Col. Nelson Tiff was the polite landlord of
the famous old Tiff Hotel, and John Jackson
was merchandising in log cabin store near
where Meyers store now stands b. II
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